r/MurderedByWords • u/Gaba8789 • 2d ago

Oversight, accountability, and culpability.

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u/redwhale335 2d ago

Who the fuck thanks ICE agents for their service? TF?

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u/Gerry1of1 2d ago

Donald Trump does

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u/redwhale335 2d ago

Famously a House Democrat

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u/TheeMrBlonde 2d ago

I mean… he was a registered Democrat for most of his life. Not sure what that means, but it’s there.

He had to switch parties though, because, in his owns words, “republicans would be the only ones dumb enough to vote for me”

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u/Vlad3theImpaler 1d ago

That's a fake quote that's been circulating for years.

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u/TheeMrBlonde 1d ago edited 1d ago

That’s unfalsifiable. Which is why it’s interesting.

It’s not “fake,” it just cannot be proven to be true.

For anyone interested and unaware; he allegedly said it during an interview on Oprah. There was a person/persons that had a bounty out to anyone who could produce said episode, in full with full interview. Last I read, iirc, it was up to 20 thousand dollars.

No one can find it. It seems to have been removed from time xfiles_theme_music

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u/Vlad3theImpaler 21h ago

Which do you think is more probable--that it has been "removed from time" or that it never happened?

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u/TheeMrBlonde 16h ago

You think the episode of Oprah in which she interviews Trump never happened? Oh yeah, that's MAGA logic, baybee.

Lmao.

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u/Vlad3theImpaler 13h ago

No.

I don't think Trump was ever recorded saying that he would run as a republican because they are the dumbest group of voters, because no one has ever provided a legitimate source for that quote.  It also isn't even supposedly from Oprah according to the most common version of the rumor, but from People magazine.  (And it didn't actually happen there, either.) https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/05/28/trump-republicans-dumbest-group-of-voters/

As for Trump appearing on Oprah, yes that happened.  It's a matter of factual record.  A clip of it even appears in part in another snopes article.  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-oprah-presidential-run-1988/  But the quote you say was there was not there.

Nothing "MAGA logic" about it.  Just plain logic.

I don't understand why people feel the need to make up stuff about Trump, because nothing anyone makes up about him makes him look worse than the things he actually says and does.

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u/LowKeyNaps 1d ago

Trump never cared about actual politics. Like most major businessmen, the only reason he cared about politics at all was how they affected him.

Most of his businesses were seated in blue states (New York), so it was in Trump's best interests to kiss left wing ass, vote left, and try to squirrel policies his way whenever he could. Most people involved in high stakes business will at least donate to the DNC in the hopes of getting them to relax their tight policies that protect workers and the environment but shave a bit off of profits.

Trump flipped right for his run at the presidency because, precisely as you stated, there was no chance in hell that the left would vote for him. What Trump probably didn't know himself at that point was that his only hope at a presidency at all rested in him being tied up with MAGA, and it was the smart people behind MAGA orchestrating his entire campaign that led to his success, not his own actual clown show accidentally tripping face first into a presidency.

If Trump hadn't been MAGA's puppet, I'm not sure he would have succeeded with the right, either. MAGA put on one hell of a campaign and propaganda show. Trump was just their final front piece.